IP Investments & Markets 2013 Introduction Video

Fri, 7/26/2013 - 8:02AM — KRISTI L. STATHIS

Today we released the second video in the series of presentations originated at the Center for Applied Innovation Town Hall Meeting on IP Investments & Markets, Presented by Ocean Tomo. In this video, Ocean Tomo Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer Michael Friedman provides a comprehensive overview of the panel and featured speaker presentation themes addressed during the two-day event.

Over the last seven years, Michael Friedman has observed that “there is IP alpha everywhere,” but further contends that it is “narrowly exploited within the investment community.” Michael provided an interesting backdrop for the audience relative to both Liquid and Illiquid Investment Strategies including special situations investing (activism, distressed and change of control situations), IP collateralized debt and IP rights enforcement, among others.

Kristi L. Stathis is the Marketing Director for Ocean Tomo and serves on the board for the Center for Applied Innovation, a Chicago-based non-profit organization created to manage education, public policy outreach and related economic activity around applied technology and intellectual property (IP) rights in the State of Illinois and around the world. She is the co-creator of the Center for Applied Innovation’s Invent for Humanity™ Technology Transfer Exchange Fair, a community, marketplace and event facilitating Appropriate Technology transfer for the betterment of mankind. She also serves on the board of The Children’s Research Fund, principal benefactor of the Stanley Manne Children’s Research Institute, the research arm of Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, having served as the annual campaign co-chair in 2013.